FORT WORTH, Texas — Danica Patrick hasn't talked to Landon Cassill recently and has no plans to talk to the driver she intentionally wrecked two weeks ago at Kansas Speedway.

Patrick, who is running a 10-race Cup schedule for Stewart-Haas Racing in addition to her full-time Nationwide Series schedule, spun Cassill on Oct. 21 at Kansas in retaliation for an earlier incident on the track. Afterward, she admitted trying to wreck Cassill on purpose and made no apologies, saying, "I have to stand up for myself."

Patrick hasn't been back at the track since then. The Nationwide Series was off last week and the Martinsville race wasn't on her Cup schedule.

So while she would like to put the incident behind her, it has lingered the past couple of weeks. Cassill criticized Patrick's driving in the Kansas race, telling SBNation that she was driving "like an idiot."

Patrick said Cassill was being too impatient on the track and that she had had problems with him before.

"I've left it," Patrick said Thursday at Texas Motor Speedway. "If he wants to talk to me, that's fine. I don't really have much to say, I guess. The actions speak louder than the words, to be honest."

While she is only running 10 Cup races this year to get ready for a full-time schedule in 2013, Patrick said she can't let drivers run over her and think they can get away with it.

"I still think it was important for me to stand up for myself and I wouldn't change it," Patrick said. "I would change my execution of the actual incident."

Patrick was chided by Cassill and chastised by her team for wrecking her own car during the incident, with crew chief Greg Zipadelli saying, "She should know better than to put herself in that position and to wreck a racecar and to not finish a race."

"I didn't do a very good job with that," Patrick said Thursday. "I guess there's only one way to learn is to try it. It's just not easy to take someone out. It was an important step in earning respect and moving forward is standing up for myself. Hopefully we won't have to do much of that anymore."

Back in both the Nationwide and Cup cars this weekend at Texas, Patrick was able to take her mind off racing with a series of appearances this week. On Thursday, she was at the track to honor schoolchildren as part of a program that encourages them to read.

While the appearances have been a nice diversion, she said she needs to get back on the track to truly put the Kansas incident behind her.

"I welcome weekends off — they're always nice," Patrick said. "But I think the best thing to move on with news is to start racing again.

"I'm sure I'll get questions (about) Kansas throughout the weekend but the best thing I can do is get on the track and get going and make another storyline."